Canada-based professor among victims of Ethiopian Airlines crash
Pius Adesanmi was founder of Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies

Pius Adesanmi was founder of Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies

After twice ignoring presidential pleas to slash higher education budget, Congress now seems less able to resist

Lucy Cavendish College to go co-educational and abolish its minimum entry age of 21

Russell Group university is on course for UK’s first industrial action linked to 2021 research excellence framework, says union

Technology now enabling rapid expansion of the worldwide sharing of classrooms

Data on research output in South America paints a stark picture for the troubled nation

Ministers love talking about grand government-directed projects, but Philip Hammond must reaffirm tomorrow the UK’s support for open-ended research using quality-related funding, says Stephanie Smith

Personal and pragmatic factors often keep Chinese academics in the West

Unusual invitation by top administration officials suggests corporate pressure on Trump over immigrants

Academics say ‘personal assistant’ position highlights precarity faced by early career scholars

Vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner confirms university is considering opening outpost following signing of free trade agreement

Huge price tag demonstrates power of plagiarism-checking company

Royal Statistical Society vice-president Guy Nason explains why it has taken the unusual step of reporting the Teaching Excellence Framework to the UK’s statistics watchdog